ALRIGHT LISTEN UP I HEAR YOU GUYS OVER ON THE WEST COAST DEALIN WITH SOME ROUGH SHIT SO YOUR LOCAL TORNADO ALLEY RESIDENT’S GONNA HOOK YOU UP WITH SOME ADVICE OKAY
WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO ME:
I HAVE SURVIVED UP TO 4-5 TORNADOES SO FAR
SLEPT THROUGH HURRICANE IKE (I lived in Houston)
TOOK SEVERAL METEOROLOGY CLASSES
I LIVE IN TORNADO ALLEY AND I HAVE BEEN THERE DONE THAT
THAT GOOD ENOUGH ALRIGHT HERE WE GO
IF A TORNADO IS SIGHTED:
do not panic
find out where it is
listen to the weatherman. trust me.
if you can see the radar, look for a “hook echo.” this hook echo looks like a rain cloud that’s curled up and made a spiral like a fish hook, usually with winds going the other direction also curling inside the hook. this is where the tornado is likely to be, since the mixing of the two opposite-facing winds created the circulation for the birth of the tornado.
tornadoes move northeast 90% of the time. if you’re south, west, or northwest, you should be okay. don’t risk it though.
most tornadoes are lower on the EF scale – 0, 1, 2, and 3. the highest can cause roofs to be torn off and trees to go flying, but these aren’t as common. 1-2 can cause roof damage and break windows, but for the most part it’s debris you wanna look out for. anything like an EF 4 or 5, you’re looking at casualties, crumbled buildings and decimation everywhere.
if the meteorologist says the tornado is “rain-wrapped” that means you can’t see the tornado because it has a curtain of rain around it. you won’t see it coming. you won’t hear it. just know it’s in there.
if there’s one tornado, there can sometimes be “satellite” tornadoes around the “parent” (bigger) tornado. these are smaller and sometimes invisible, but they can knock over vehicles and cause just as much damage. be careful.
take tornado precautions! this means:
grab a flashlight
grab toilet paper
go into the innermost room of the house (bathrooms and closets are good but if there’s a room deeper in the center of the house, that can also work)
grab something to put over your head. helmet, briefcase, mattress, pillow, any and all of those have saved people’s lives before.
tuck in with everyone in the household. if you have pets, you can try to tuck them between two of you, and face front-to-back (so you’re facing their back with your legs on either side of their hips) and keep your pet in between you. if you have a larger pet, keep them close by.
DO NOT OPEN THE WINDOWS. i know there’s a myth that if you open your windows the air pressure in your house will change as the tornado hits and you’ll get less damage but that is FALSE AS ALL FUCK. DO NOT OPEN YOUR WINDOWS.
turn off the gas and electricity. this is to save yourself from harm AFTER the tornado hits, when power lines, gas pipes and other harmful household power sources may be compromised.
SHOOOEEESSS. do NOT go without shoes.
grab a radio. the NOAA has a special radio station that gives live feed of the tornado. if you have a phone keep it handy and download your local news’ weather app, or the NOAA weather app.
IF YOU ARE IN AN APARTMENT WHEN THE TORNADO HITS:
go to the bottom floor. if there’s a basement, go there.
if there isn’t, believe it or not another safe place can be any indoor stairway you can find access to. it may not seem safe, but these places are more sturdy.
stay away from windows, patios and outside-facing doors!
IF YOU ARE IN A CAR WHEN THE TORNADO HITS:
turn off your car!
park beside the road. if you have no chance of escape, park your car on the side of the road. if there’s a ditch, go down there.
get down onto the floorboard. tuck into the backseat, under the passenger seat, or under the drivers’ seat.
put something over your head.
DO NOT PARK UNDER AN OVERPASS! THIS IS MORE DANGEROUS! people assume that if they park under an overpass the wind won’t hit as hard, but that’s not true. the opposite is true – the wind, with a smaller space to go through, moves FASTER. do not park under any bridges or overpasses, that’s asking for trouble!
if you know where the tornado is, and you are capable of it, GO SOUTH. if the tornado is south of you, GO WEST. if the tornado is in front of you (going away from you), GO SOUTH. if the tornado is going towards you, GO! GO GO GO, AND IF YOU CAN, GO SOUTH!
DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN THE TORNADO! YOU CAN’T. three of the best tornado specialists in the industry DIED because they couldn’t outrun the tornado they were chasing. unless you have literally no other roads to turn on and are stuck on one road with the tornado coming your way, DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN THE TORNADO!
if there are local supermarkets, shops, theaters, gas stations, whatever, GO INSIDE. trust me, you’re much safer in a building – even a gas station – than in your car.
don’t bother parking in a car wash or under a parking garage/gas station. it won’t help. at all.
IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME/TRAILER/SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES:
GET. THE. FUCK. OUT. GET OUT.
NO I’M DEAD SERIOUS TORNADOES LOVE TRAILER PARKS. THERE ARE ACTUAL STATS THAT SHOW TORNADOES LOVE BLOWING OVER TRAILER PARKS. WHY WHO KNOWS BUT THEY DO.
YOU ARE NOT SAFE. GET. OUT.
IF THE TORNADO PASSES:
DO NOT MOVE! stay where you are until the meteorologist says it’s safe.
EVEN IF THE TORNADO HAS LEFT YOUR AREA, STAY PUT! wait until the tornado is completely gone, and the storm has passed. listen for when your local news station says it’s safe to come out.
DO NOT DRIVE AROUND! downed power lines, gas leaks and busted water/sewage pipes will be everywhere. debris will be all over the roads. stay in your house.
if you lose power, wait. don’t try to light candles right away. make sure it’s safe and there’s no gas leaks.
do not turn on the power! there might be blown power lines and if you try to turn the power on, it won’t work.
check your neighbors. make sure they’re okay.
call your loved ones. let them know you’re safe.
TORNADO LINGO YOU SHOULD KNOW:
rain-wrapped: the tornado is hidden in sheets of rain. it can’t be seen except by radar, so don’t count on being able to see or hear it.
blue lightning: this is actually transformers and power stations blowing up. they emit a blue lightning that shows up on the ground.
hook echo/hook: this is where the two air currents in the storm wrap around each other, forming a hook on the radar. this is where most tornadoes form.
funnel: a lowering of the bottom of the cloud shaped like a circle, or funnel. sometimes you’ll see a circular wind rotation on the ground below it.
wall cloud: this is the bottom part of the stormcloud, where funnels are formed.
wedge: the tornado is shaped like a pie wedge.
rope: this can be two things. a rope tornado means it’s curvy and thin. if a tornado “ropes out” that means it’s unraveled and then dissipated.
tornado precautions: the fancy way of saying “emergency plan for when tornadoes hit”
spotter: a spotter or chaser is someone who works with weather stations to capture the tornado from the ground. they’re professionals – meteorologists, sometimes photographers and researchers – who actively drive and try to report where the tornado is. DO NOT DO THIS! THESE PEOPLE HAVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE!
debris trail: this is the damage trail left behind by where the tornado has been.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS SHOOT THEM @ ME AIGHT
LOCAL TORNADO ALLEY RESIDENT OUT
Shit dude I could have used this this morning
Aww hell who am I kidding I’ll probably need it tonight/tomorrow.
Eventually I gotta get a bunch of stuff like this together and print ‘em all out and put them in a binder for when I inevitably panic.
Anyone got any tips for fitting my two parents, seven big dogs, a cat, and a turtle into a bathtub? Asking for me lol,
And they are getting even more strict when it comes to not using invoices for charging for Digital Goods.
Whatever Invoices make you uncomfortable or not, you gotta start using them if you want to keep your PayPal and your money. Changes starting this October 19th.
Honestly I don’t get why so many artists are so overwhelmed by invoices, takes just a few clicks to set up.
And is not only “oh you have to use invoices because PayPal says so” if you don’t use invoices you’re putting yourself at risk of being scammed by an user abusing the buyer’s protection.
Since PayPal ain’t got no idea of what those $50 you received were for, but the buyer is saying they didn’t got anything for the money, PayPal will just side with the buyer.
I’m seriously begging ppl, start using invoices. I’m tired of seeing ppl complain their paypal was banned, or is under investigation, or worse, the $100 they got for a very complicated commission, 3 months later get a refund issue.
just
start
using
invoices
for your own sake.
Here is how you use invoices because I can’t keep playing devil’d advocate, yes I would love to help you get your PayPal restored but just this last month I had to help three persons, and they were MORE than aware of this issues.
Just protect yourself.
Step 1. You login and click here
Step 2. You click create new Invoice. YOU NEVER CLICK REQUEST MONEY, unless you want to risk yourself to get scamer by buyer’s protection exploit and not only lose your money but your paypal account, and any future paypal linked to your irl name.
Step 3 You follow this steps
1. Invoice for amount only
2. Ask your client for their PayPal email and put in that field
3. Add a vague description of what you’re doing, something like “Character Coloured with Background” is good enough, and if you need more than 1 character you can type in “2″ where it says amount, or just say “2 characters”.
Warning: don’t type in “Naruto rawing Sasuke”. That will get you banned.
4. Click send.
Optional steps. Create a template, doesn’t take more than 10 minutes and it will save you a lot of time for future invoices, you can even click on “items” right next to “create invoice” and add a list of services you offer such as “character sketch” “character flats” along with a price, so next time you invoice you just add to the invoice from your list of items and you saved yourself some more time.
More importantly, you protect yourself from buyer’s protection exploit because if PayPal knows you’re doing digital goods, then you will be allowed that you did in fact created a digital good.
Keep PayPal happy, as for right now there are no alternatives to this service, and this is the only source of income for many freelancers.
Stay safe.
Heads up, all commissioning artists
Heads up to people looking to commission artists, too
Read an artist’s TOS–if anything in the TOS so much as mentions an invoice, do not send payment without an invoice. Even if an artist doesn’t work with invoices, ask for one anyway. Cover both of your asses. Link them to this Tumblr post if you have to. With PayPal’s policies getting stricter and stricter with digital goods, you could potentially get an artist in a lot of trouble and their account frozen if you just up and send payment without waiting for them to send you an invoice.
I’ve been using PayPal invoices for three to four years, and I still get people who pay for their commission before I can even get an invoice filled out, despite being told outright that I’m sending them an invoice. It’s very, very nerve wracking for me, especially if the payment is a large one. I need my PayPal account to make a living; I literally can’t afford to take a gamble with commissioners who can’t be patient anymore.
While you are worrying about whether beta readers will steal your ideas, there is a more genuine threat on the horizon.
When offered a publishing contract, please do all your research before you sign. There are a number of fakes and scammers out there, as well as good-intentioned amateurs that don’t know how to get your work to a wide audience. I won’t tell the heartbreaking stories here – there are too many.
Being published badly is worse than being never published.
It can destroy your career and your dreams.
The quick check is to google the publishing house name + scam or warning.
But, to be sure, check with these places first. They aren’t infallible (nothing is) but they can help you protect yourself. They are written and maintained by expereinced writers, editors, publishers and legal folks.
This is really important, so if you are a writer or have writer friends, or you are a writing blog, please reblog it.
Just to let you know, PublishAmerica changed their name to America Star Books.
HEAD’S UP, WRITER TYPES: THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PSA!
Also applies to many so-called freelance sites that are just content mills, and may not pay unless your work is used, even if the contract seems designed otherwise.
Listen, reading these is like legit reading horror stories. When it comes to publishing your writing, always, always, ALWAYS do your research. Not only will it help you avoid scams, but it will also be likely to help you land a much better fit for an agent/publisher/whatever. Knowing more is never going to hurt.
Omg!!! Thanks for the warning! Writers— reblog!
I’ve heard stories like this that are scarier than horror stories. This is an all time worst nightmare for a writer. Everyone reblog and make sure you keep your work safe!
even if you get along great with your family you will get along even better with them after moving out
generic is almost always just as good as name brand. But there are some things you never buy generic, including: peanut butter, ketchup, liquid NyQuil, Chips-Ahoy chewy chocolate chip cookies
just imagine the person on the other end of the phone hates talking on the phone as much as you do. Even a receptionist. I worked as one and I hate talking on the phone
at least once in your life you will go to Wal-mart to buy something under $20 like an ironing board or something and your debit card will get rejected. No one will judge. Everyone at some point in their lives has had $2.98 in their bank account.
thrift stores
everyone else is too busy panicking about everyone else noticing every tiny thing that could possibly be wrong about them to notice any tiny thing that could possibly be wrong about you
you will screw up. a lot. you live and you learn. and when you start to think too hard about that embarrassing thing that happened and how you wish you could change it, just tell yourself that what’s done is done. There’s no changing it, so just forget it and move on. It’s the only way to stay sane.
do the dishes before the sink grows its own ecosystem
you can’t put Dawn dishsoap in the dishwasher.
if you are the only one in the aisle at the grocery store, and you need to get from one end to the other without even looking at anything in that aisle, then you should totally cart-surf down the aisle. Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. Hold on to the little things. They make all the difference.
never try to make cake from scratch at 3am. You end up with a topographical map of Middle Earth.
15% tip.
the best way to get money for food is to tell your grandparents about how you basically live on microwaved mac and cheese. Their horror may result in twenty bucks and orders to go out and get yourself “a real dinner”.
sometimes life sucks, and knowing that it might get better doesn’t always make it suck any less, but you’ll never get to the non-sucky days without enduring the suckiness.
no seriously, NEVER put Dawn in your dishwasher
Do not buy generic brand spaghetti sauce either.
Always check the type of light bulb that goes in lamps. A 60w is not interchangeable with a 40w.
Dollar store batteries work just as well as store brand.
Reward yourself from time to time when you do things that you needed to get done. It’s a good way to remind yourself to do them. Going out to pay a bill? Get Starbucks or something you don’t get often. Rewards don’t have to be huge, they can be small things like that.
Rice, pasta, flour, sugar, cheese, eggs, milk, a pack of chicken, a pack of frozen veggies and a well stocked spice cabinet go a long way food-wise. Splurge and get the biggest container of rice you can. You don’t have to go back and buy it again anytime soon and it makes a TON of meals in the meantime.
Rice can be cooked on the stove. You don’t need a fancy rice cooker. Two parts water to every one part rice (two cups water for one cup of rice for example). Get your water boiling, add rice, put a plate or lid on it, put it on low for 20 minutes. It should be done.
Keep a calendar on your pc of bill due dates. If your bills are set up at inconvenient times, like all of the services started on the first or something, then call up the company and find out if you can get your billing date switched to something more manageable. A lot of places do try to work with you.
There is no shame in calling a company and asking for an extension on a bill. Let them know what you can pay, pay that amount, and they arrange when the rest of the payment is required. This can stop you from having services shut off man. It shows responsibility on your part.
Take time to eat, even when you don’t feel like eating. Your body needs energy to live.
Wash or rinse your dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. It prevents gross caked on junk.
“The Works” is an excellent cheap toilet cleaner.
MAGIC. FUCKING. ERASERS. THEY WORK ON EVERYTHING JUST DON’T SCRUB HARD. I took the ring out of our bathtub with one. Also generic ones work just as well.
Keep some bleach around but if you use it for cleaning? Dillute it. There’s rarely ever a case where you need to pout straight bleach on anything. A cap full or two in a bucket of water works just fine.
DO NOT MIX CLEANERS. Chemical reactions are can be very dangerous. Here’s a good list. (Note that vinegar and baking soda can actually be a good combo for removing smells from things but it’s not very good at actually -cleaning-.)
If you drink? Don’t take meds at the same time it’s just not good.
Make sure you check the dosages on your pill bottles. No one wants to accidentally overdose on cough syrup or ibuprofen.
If you have a uterus make sure you have a heating pad and ibuprofen on hand for the pain. Hot baths also generally help and Ginger Tea is excellent for any nausea.
Buy a first aid kit. It’s worth it in the long run.
You can often do your taxes online at places like TurboTax.
Petroleum jelly (aka Vaseline) is good for chapped lips and you can get a decent sized tube or tub of it (generic brand version) for cheaper/same price as Chapstick.
KEEP TRIPLE ANTIBIOTIC OINTMENT IN YOUR HOUSE FOR CUTS AND SCRAPES AND SORES.
~~Medications~~
Over the counter medications (stuff you can buy right off the shelf no prescription needed) have a name brand and a generic name. ALWAYS buy generic if it’s available it is literally the same thing and way cheaper usually.
Some names to remember when you’re looking for meds!
Acetaminophen = Tylenol
Used to treat pain and reduce fever. Do not take with Ibuprofen.
Ibuprofen = Advil, Midol, Motrin
Used for pain and fever, is an anti-inflammtory. Is good for period cramps because it is an NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug).
Naproxen = Aleve, Naprosyn
Treats fever, pain, arthritis pain, gout, period cramps, tendinitis, headache, backache, and toothache. Is also an NSAID.
Acetaminophen + Asprin + Caffeine = Excedrin
Usually marketed as “Migraine Relief” as a generic.
Asprin = Bayer
Use for pain, fever, arthritis, and inflammation. Makes you bleed easily so should not be used for periods. Might reduce risk of heart attacks.
Triple Antibiotic Ointment = Neosporin
Used on cuts, sores, and scrapes to reduce risk of infection and promote healing.
Also a general mutli-vitamin isn’t a bad idea and if you don’t get a lot of fruits or milk/sunshine in your diet you might want to get vitamins C and D specifically for daily use.
if you do accidentally lapse and put dawn in your dishwasher, run it empty and put hair conditioner where the detergent goes. that’ll clean it out (tip given to me by dorm custodian when roommate did the thing).
if you live off ramen, add stuff to it! add veggies you like, don’t use the whole flavor packet to cut down on sodium and msg or don’t use it at all and add your own spices.
if you’re making something with potatoes in it (beans, stew) potatoes are done when you can easily stab a fork through them.
you can microwave a hotdog as long as you put it in a microwave safe container of water. microwaves work by making water molecules vibrate. also, when reheating rice leftovers, add a small amount of water, like maybe a spoonfull, so it doesn’t get hard and crunchy.
the rice cooking advice above is for long grain rice. if you’re making short or medium grain rice, a 1:1 ratio (one cup water for one cup rice) is better, so the rice doesn’t come out too mushy.
buy a few cans of chicken. wholesale club stores like sam’s, costco, or bj’s tend to carry multipacks for a good price. they’re incredibly useful for when you forget to defrost meat.
buy meat on sale and put it in the freezer. buy vegetables on sale, and put them in the freezer. frozen veggies are often as flavorful and good as fresh ones, keep longer, and often come in microwaveable bags or with microwave directions.
soak ink stains in milk to help get them out or at least lighten them.
soak blood stains in water as soon as possible, with a bit of detergent or stain remover. scrub at them. use cold water, heat binds proteins to fabric. tbh, there’s no real need to change the washer from cold-cold setting unless the thing you’re washing says to wash in warm water.
acetone, found in most nail polish removers, dissolves super glue.
YOU’RE ALL DOING GOD’S WORK BLESS YOU
Takes pictures, have prints made and put them in photo albums. Be IN the pictures, have someone take pictures of you and your friends. Get over not looking perfect in thw picture. Someday that friend might be gone and those pictures might be all you’ll have, you will want to be in them. I made that mistake with my best friend, i always felt weird asking for a picture together… he died of cancer January of 2014 and now i have no pictures of us together. Its my only regret in life.
This is really helpful, thank you all!
I’m the newest of new adults but I’m gonna throw these little tips in there. IF YOU HAVE AN OLD CAR:
-coolant or water if your car overheats (coolant is preferable cause it won’t hurt the engine in the long run but hey i know money is tight)
-flashlight in case you break down at night and need to check under the hood and your phone is dead
-SPARE TIRE.
-jumper cables.you will at some point leave your lights on. you just will.
AAA or any other road side service is never a bad investment i swear. (try to mooch it off your parents as long as you can though)
Know how to change a tire. You’re going to need to do it at some point in time and you can’t always rely on someone else to do it for you.
Don’t be afraid to go to your local food bank. They are there for a reason.
Don’t be ashamed to ask for help period. Life is hard, everyone needs help occasionally.
You can put a LOWER wattage bulb in a lamp that says it’s for a higher one, but don’t put a HIGHER wattage bulb in. Also, watts refer to the amount of electricity used. LUMENS refers to the amount of light put out, and can vary quite a bit between brands, even though the wattage is the same. Look for the one with the highest lumens unless you actually want a slightly dimmer bulb in a certain location.
Those dollar store batteries? Fine if they’re alkaline. “Heavy-duty” batteries, however, won’t last nearly as long.
You can microwave a hot dog and bun simply by wrapping them in a toweling for a minute, less if you don’t want them scalding hot.
Reblogging to save lives.
Two adulting (kitchen-related) tips from me!
1. Buy a roll of parchment paper from the cooking shit aisle. A big roll will last you for-fucking-ever. Pretty much any time you’re using a baking pan you can line it with that stuff and save yourself A: food sticking to the pan and B: it’s a quick rinse and it’s clean.
2. Bread can get fucking expensive, so make your own. A bigass bag of flour and a bag of active dry yeast (store it in the friiiiidge!!!) works out a FUCK of a lot cheaper than buying bread at the store, and you can do so much more with it. Bread, pizza, rolls, cinnibuns, homemade pizza pockets. It seems intimidating but it’s stupid easy.
Seriously. It’s stupid simple to make, and most of the “3 hours” to make it is sitting around surfing the internet or doing whatever the fuck you want while the dough rises. If you have an afternoon free once a week to sit and play video games or surf the net, you have the time to make your own bread on the cheap. Here’s my simple-as-fuck recipe:
2 ¼ teaspoons active dry yeast (You can buy a bag of this stuff CHEAP in bulk stores, the little packets are hella stupid priced) 1 cup warm water (think a hot bath) 1 ½ teaspoons sugar 2 tablespoons oil (any kind works for the most part) 2 ¼ cups flour 1 teaspoon salt
1. Stir the yeast, water, sugar, and oil up in a bowl. Let it sit for about 10 minutes. It will foam up VERY high, this is the yeast getting happy! If it doesn’t get all foamy, the water may have been too hot or not hot enough. Remember, Yeast is alive! Treat it like a nice girlfriend!
2. Mix your flour, salt, and the yeast concoction up in a bowl.
3. Knead that shit for about 5 minutes. It will start sticky as heck, but will come together into a nice dough. If it’s still super sticky, toss in a bit more flour. Here’s how to knead it:
4. Put your dough in a covered, lightly oiled bowl and leave it someplace warmish for an hour. At that point it will have roughly doubled in size, give it a gentle punch to release the gasses that have built up inside. Cover it again and let it sit for a bit longer.
Boom. You have bread dough. Here are some baking times and uses for ya:
Optional egg-wash: Just crack an egg into a bowl, add a pinch of salt, and mix the bejeebus out of it with a fork. Brush (or if you’re like me, goop it on with said fork) that shit thinly on bread before baking for a nice crust.
Pizza: Stretch it on a pan, stab the fucker all over with a fork, add toppings, bake 425*F 15-20 minutes.
Bread Sticks: Make snake-shapes, let rest on pan 10-ish minutes, bake 400*F 10-20 minutes.
Dinner rolls: Make ball-sized (yes those balls) balls. Place on greased pan, let rest 10-20 minutes to rise. Egg-wash and bake 375*F 25 minutes.
Bread: Lightly score (cut) the top, let sit for 20-ish minutes on/in whatever you’re using to bake it, egg-wash, bake at 375*F for 20-ish minutes. It’s done when it sounds hollow if you knock on the bottom.
You bet your ass you can deep-fry this shit for cheapie yeast doughnuts. Roll that shit in sugar or dip it in whatever, it’s fucking tasty.
Bagels: YES. YOU. CAN. Form bagel-shapes out of the dough and boil them in salty water for about 2 minutes. Egg-wash them and bake them at 400*F for 10 minutes.
Cinnamon Rolls: Roll that shit out into a rectangle. Brush it with a mix of butter, cinnamon, sugar, and a pinch of salt (no exact amounts here, do it to your taste). Roll it up into a log, and cut it into discs. Let them sit 20 minutes in a pan and then bake at 375*F 15-17 minutes.
You can add whatever you want to the dough for some variety, just if it’s dried spices remember you really only need 1-ish tablespoons. I personally like making bread with about 1 tablespoon of dill in the dough. Roll it out flat, sprinkle it with cheddar, roll it into a log, squeeze the ends shut, and bake it like a regular loaf of bread. Cheesy dill bread OMNOMNOM.
*ahem* That got a bit long. But yeah. Bread’s expensive, yo. Save your wallet.
(Also it’s ridiculous amounts of therapeutic to bake, for me anyway)
about the medicine: know the difference between ibuprofen and paracetamol!! paracetamol is a painkiller and is probably the way to go if you have a headache or period pain since it’s easier on the stomach, while ibuprofen is anti inflammatory! that means it will work well as a painkiller, but it’s also good for common colds – just take it two times a day (make sure to check the dosage with a pharmacologist or read the instructions that come with the medicine tho) for up to three days to lower your temperature (if it lasts longer than that pls go see a doctor) another tip: always have a few painkiller pills on you they will save your life and last thing: take the medical advice on tumblr with a grain of salt most of us aren’t specialists so please double and triple check all the info
Shout out to writers out there spending hours, days, or weeks struggling with their stories – struggling to get the words right, struggling to make the story cohesive, struggling just to write
Shout out to writers who pour a ton of love, devolution and time into a story they’re super proud of and excited to share but end up getting little to no feed back on it
Shout out to writers who feel under appreciated in an environment where creative thinking is highly celebrated but so much of that enthusiasm is geared towards artists that they feel lost in the shadows
Shout out to writers who have quit because they felt their writing wasn’t good enough, because they weren’t getting any feedback, because no matter how much effort they expended, they got the same response they did when they started out
Shout out to writers who work their butts off to get exposure, to get themselves known and still end up with little to no recognition
Shout out to writers who stare down at their keyboard or empty Word document and wonder what the point is
Shout out to writers who continue to write regardless. Shout out to writers who need that support and love to keep writing. Shout out to writers who are told their works suck or they’re a terrible writer, and feel so discouraged they want to stop. Shout to writers who appreciate all notes – whether they’re reblogs or likes. Shout out to writers who get excited every time someone reblogs their fic.
Shout out to writers. To those who can spin out a fic easy, to those who have to spend so many stressful hours in front of a computer screen to just get out a sentence, to those who write original stuff, to those who write fanfiction, to all of those who write. A big, loving shout out to all y’all.
I saw this post on my dash (with commentary, dw) and there was one thing that I didn’t see addressed in the comment chain that I really feel needs to be
Once an artist creates a work, they own the copyright
None of this “I paid for the art. It is mine.” bullshit, unless the artist actually sells you the copyright (something which has to be stated and never assumed, and something you would have to pay extra for) you can not claim ownership over the piece, even if you paid for it.
And yes, this means you can not alter the work in any way, you can not use it for banners/advertisements/etc., you can not print it, you can not sell copiesunless agreed upon with the artist
and artists are also protected under moral rights
meaning that the artist has the right of attribution (the right to be identified and named as the creator of
their work), the right against false attribution, and the right of integrity. (Source)
so fuck off with your “I paid for the art. It is mine.” crap, it doesn’t stick legally
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